Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have your hair done once a week could you set it yourself and just visit the hairdressers for a cut every two months ? |
| 2 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |
| 3 | As he held her eyes for a moment a look passed between them , deeply compassionate , oddly intimate . |
| 4 | Taking Primary Schools as a whole the curriculum is probably wide enough to serve curriculum needs … |
| 5 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 6 | Such groups can properly be described in terms of free association within a generally accepted cultural diversity , though it must be noted that even here , in many cases , the diversity is established by these initiatives , rather than prepared for them , and that in the cases of particular branches of an art the initiatives often involve significant local conflict . |
| 7 | Red and white currants here in rows , berries like glass beads , gooseberries with a ripeness the colour of rust on their green cheeks . |
| 8 | Although the system illustrated receives its phase control signals from a microprocessor a number of less sophisticated alternatives are presented later in this Chapter . |
| 9 | Are soaps in a sense the subconscious of patriarchy — where patriarchy is reflecting on itself via these various problematic issues which are unresolvable within the terms that patriarchy sets ? |
| 10 | Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship . |
| 11 | two cars in a circle a black and a red one |
| 12 | lists in an appendix the prospective purchasers , if any , already identified in each participating member 's country |
| 13 | While the text may be mere words on a page the discourse takes on a deeper and more determinative role . |
| 14 | The forward tilt is admirable but these chairs have a disadvantage : by placing the knees on a pad the feet , with their receptors , are prevented from being placed flat on the floor . |
| 15 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 16 | But already one thing was clear : the heat could not simply be due to deuterium dd fusion as this process should produce neutrons at a rate a billion times larger than they were recording . |
| 17 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 18 | ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment . |
| 19 | In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories . |
| 20 | In the accounts of a business the principal repayment would merely be a transfer of funds within the balance sheet from the owners to the creditors . |
| 21 | For n moles of a gas the equation is |
| 22 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 23 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 24 | In the advanced capitalist countries as a whole the share of consumption declined far less than it did in Japan in those exceptional years — between 1952 and 1973 it only slid down from 62.9 per cent of GDP to 59.5 per cent . |
| 25 | Under the hands and feet of an expert the organ can sound more rhythmical than many people imagine , although it does not usually match the rhythmic or percussive elements of a piano or modern keyboard . |
| 26 | Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September . |
| 27 | First of all , the more water-furrows in a field the more land is wasted ; secondly a field that is ploughed in narrow stetches that are ridged up slightly to assist the drainage is not the best seed-bed for a crop of corn , as the ridges are bound , to some degree , to cause an unequal ripening of the seed . |
| 28 | That had been in a train like this one , a Jubilee train heading northwards , and Jarvis could clearly remember the man 's despair , his shouts and exclamations in a language no one understood . |
| 29 | As in this simple mental experiment of the narrative ending , most experiments in literary studies involve taking related versions of a text and seeing what effects on a reader the differences between them have . |
| 30 | It was a I was gon na ask you you know , wh when you moved from shunter to foreman , you had responsibilities for a lot a lot besides the shunting . |